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Course Design and Preparation

Course Design and Preparation for Teachers and Faculty

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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Facing the Future: Educators Discuss Teaching in the Era of ChatGPT
- $299.00
- Join three educators as they discuss teaching in the era of ChatGPT, and answer your questions about embracing this technology.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors
- $199.00
- Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors sets teachers up for classroom success through an in-depth examination of five core principles of college teaching.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Planning and Designing a Course
- $199.00
- Effective course planning and design is the foundation of student engagement, learning, and success. Learn from expert educators as you refine and improve your courses with Practical Solutions for Faculty: Planning and Designing a Course.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Course
- $199.00
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Course gives teachers the tools to light a path for their students. Benefit from research-based, classroom-tested best practices that can be immediately applied in the classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Discover how to integrate meaningful communication skills with instruction and reflection to enrich the online student learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities through service learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve the quality of class discussions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides a three-step process for structuring discussions to increase participation and student engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who have mixed- or low-level reading skills among students combined with course materials that are reading intensive, this 20-Minute Mentor details skills to implement that help strengthen student reading as well as instructional techniques to intervene before students lag behind.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who feel overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how the benefits of hyflex teaching outweigh the challenges for both teachers and students alike while delivering time saving successful strategies to employ.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Student Engagement
- How Can I Create an Engaging, Student-Focused Syllabus?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty whose syllabi are often unread by students, leading to confusion and even misinformation later in the course, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how to make a visually appealing syllabus that quickly communicates crucial course details to students in an engaging way.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Learning Path, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Preparing Your Course
- $99.00
- This program guides your students to success by incorporating best practices for learning into your courses through numerous expert presentations of effective strategies.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who want to improve student feedback while not adding to their grading workload, this 20-Minute Mentor provides expert guidance to creating better opportunities for your students while being more efficient with your grading.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For educators who are looking for ways to close the gaps between privileged and minoritized students, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to improve the success of minoritized students through implementing an antiracist syllabus.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors
- $329.00
- Achieve and sustain classroom success through this Magna Online Course which provides an in-depth examination of five core principles of college teaching.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
- $49.00 – $697.00
- For faculty whose students are not retaining course concepts for the duration of the semester, this Magna Online Seminar explains interleaving content during instruction and studying to improve student success through increased content retention.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor focuses on the instructional considerations necessary for supporting student learning online and the numerous factors for achieving online student success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty seeking advice on writing more effective exam questions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many tips and strategies for reinvigorating exam question sets to provide students better examinations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who want to increase their exam security, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to use question banks to create unique exams and improve academic integrity.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Planning and Designing a Course
- $329.00
- For faculty searching for a deeper understanding of course planning tools such as backward design, mastery grading, and universal design for learning, this Magna Online Course provides you with practical guidance from expert educators who have implemented these strategies in their own classrooms.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Giving Narrative Shape to Your Online Classroom
- $49.00 – $697.00
- More than ever, students are motivated by knowing how a course will serve them in future learning or in life after college. This Magna Online Seminar helps faculty create a narrative that connects daily learning to future careers.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Flipping Your Classroom
- $329.00
- The flipped classroom offers many advantages to students including flexibility, an improved learning environment, and additional opportunities for engagement with students, the teacher, and the content. This Magna Online Course is your flipping-classroom foundation, bestowing pedagogy, strategies, and actionable ideas related to flipping a class - all in one place.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars
- Contemplative Pedagogy for Purposeful Teaching
- $49.00 – $697.00
- For faculty who are frustrated with the rapid, "get-it-done" pivot to remote instruction, this Magna Online Seminar provides strategies and tactics to immediately incorporate contemplative pedagogy into your teaching practice to provide more meaningful instruction and interactions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Magna All Access, Teaching Strategies
- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and are struggling with time management, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to plan and prioritize for the instructional activities that have the greatest impact on student learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Have you integrated inclusive pedagogies into your teaching and wonder what’s next? Are you ready to be more intentional about making your assignments and course content more equity-minded? This Magna Online Seminar will identify evidence-based approaches to add equity-minded content and improve the success of minoritized students in your disciplinary and institutional context.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Technology in the Classroom
- Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Through the use of open pedagogy and open syllabi, instructors can empower students to play a larger role in the development and curation of learning materials for their classes. In this Magna Online Seminar, we will introduce the concepts of open pedagogy and open syllabi and discuss practical ways they have been successfully used in classroom settings with both commercial and open educational resource (OER) materials.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments
- $49.00 – $697.00
- The best courses start with the end in mind. What will students learn or be able to do by the end of this class? This Magna Online Seminar helps you organize your workflow and equips you with the tools to line up your course learning elements with your student learning outcomes.
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- Books, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty
- Planning and Designing Your College Course
- $39.00
- Planning and Designing Your College Course focuses on the planning aspects that precede the launching of a course—the work instructors do behind the scenes and that students usually aren’t privy to. You’ll be able to make each key part of your course design learner-centered and obtain strategies to get students to collaborate in the course design process.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $329.00
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course is your surest path to online teaching success. This content-rich, 20- to 25-hour Magna Online Course provides core principles and best practices in online teaching—to get you up and running fast, without costly and frustrating false starts.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Principles of Effective College Teaching
- $329.00
- This intensive Magna Online Course provides in-depth instruction on the myriad responsibilities of a college teacher. You'll find it an indispensable resource as you prepare to teach.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Designing & Teaching a Course with a Critical Thinking Focus
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Critical thinking is a skill that students in all disciplines must master. This seminar leads educators through the process of developing and teaching a discipline-based course that targets critical thinking skills and shows participants how to effectively encourage students to think for themselves.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Taming the Monster: Rethinking the Role of Content
- $49.00 – $697.00
- This seminar teaches you innovative ways to think about the content that is critical for your students to learn and remember. Explore the mission of content in the classroom and how to use it to provide high-quality instruction.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Evidence-Based Teaching in Higher Education: Strategies to Improve Student Learning
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Explore the results of research on teaching and learning and discover a range of practical strategies that can make your own teaching more evidence-based and, as a result, improve your students' ability to learn when they study.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Learn techniques that will help improve your teaching and your students' ability to learn more effectively. Develop a framework you can use to better identify goals for your students, along with strategies to help them achieve those goals.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
- $49.00 – $697.00
- You'll learn the importance of building CT outcomes, assessments, and activities into your courses. Discover the likely misconceptions your students will have about critical thinking, what you can do to dispel them as quickly as possible, and why tying CT to a specific discipline can help students better understand the concept.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Gain strategies to help you expand students concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Discover 360-degree assessment as a multiple-input approach to feedback that can improve teaching outcomes for instructors and learning outcomes for students, maximize and enhance deep, meaningful learning, and promote achievement for both teachers and students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Examine the value of interdisciplinary thinking to solve learning challenges, discover how to apply creative approaches to your course outcomes and assessments, and discover new excitement for teaching and collaborating within your discipline.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $49.00 – $697.00
- No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this Magna Online Seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Planning by the Calendar
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to take a more holistic view of your courses by shifting your mindset beyond content to consider course rhythms and the natural ebbs and flows of student motivation.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Reaching Neurodiverse Students: Course Creation Strategies
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Discover that neurodiverse differences often are not openly declared and might be hard to recognize in individuals in a classroom of students. Explore the common barriers to learning experienced by neurodiverse students and learn strategies to build content and environments that support breaking down those barriers and improving learning for all students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Backward Design: Meaningful and Measurable Learning Outcomes
- $49.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar discusses the purpose and best practices of course outcome design while identifying and refining the course outcomes in your own program, course, or unit.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Increase Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Visual Literacy with Graphic Novels
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Discover how changing instruction from using traditional text to adding graphic novel(s) can open communication with different student groups and also develop skills, such as visual literacy, in all students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Design for Faculty: Instructional Design Basics
- $49.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar is perfect for those of you who are just a little lost, a little confused, or really want a glimpse of course planning with a real-life instructional designer. This seminar will focus on the prep work that happens before the syllabus is given to students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Tools and Techniques for Improving Course Accessibility
- $49.00 – $697.00
- Research suggests that at-risk learners often benefit from reading—as well as listening to—lectures and presentations. The technology already exists. We show you various activities to help you understand the benefits and applications of transcription technology.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses
- $329.00
- The Magna Online Course Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses gives teachers the tools to light a path for their students. Led by Linda B. Nilson, PhD, the founding director of Clemson University's Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, it presents research-based, classroom-tested best practices that can be immediately applied in the classroom.
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- Books, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty
- Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators
- $39.00
- Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators is a must-have guide for faculty. While the roles in the college classroom often are defined by teachers teaching and students learning, the reality is that not many students have a clear understanding of how to learn.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Subscription, Teaching Strategies
- The Teaching Professor
- From: $19.00 / month
- The Teaching Professor is the lively, highly informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. A source of cutting-edge information and inspiration for more than 10,000 educators at universities and colleges worldwide.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Monday Morning Mentor, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Monday Morning Mentor
- $999.00
- Monday Morning Mentor delivers one of our popular Magna 20-Minute Mentor online programs each week - 16 in the fall and 16 in the spring.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Developing a clear understanding of where you want your course to go and what your students will learn is essential for faculty. By articulating your pedagogical goals, you will clarify your practices and take both your teaching and your students to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- We've all encountered toxic learning environments—apathetic students, disillusioned faculty, an entire roomful of people waiting for class to just end, already. Keeping the classroom climate positive is the responsibility of both sides. Learn valuable concepts you can put to work right away in every class.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Tools embedded in most learning management systems can simplify faculty workload while intentionally engaging students in course content. One such tool is conditional release, which releases online course material contingent upon a student meeting a particular condition or reaching a predetermined criterion.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Add Choice to My Course to Give Students Autonomy and Motivate Deep Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Authentic assessment can be difficult when you are faced with a vastly diverse audience of students. How can we best meet their needs when each of their learning styles, skills, and passions widely vary? The answer to this challenge may live within the concept of choice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Sometimes, faculty don't have the support of an instructional designer to help plan their courses. In fact, many faculty never have any help from an instructional designer whatsoever. So, where do they start?
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Your syllabus is one of the first impressions your course will make on your students. Need an aha moment to punch up your syllabi? Learn how to transform them from long, boring and text-laden documents to something elegant and engaging that your students will want to read.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Backwards design is a straightforward process that provides value to both learners and instructors by creating alignment between objectives, class format, and examination questions. This method can assure student success by focusing on the outcomes first and ensuring that the course content aligns with those outcomes, while also creating a better process for instructors by allowing them to focus on their own content more efficiently.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- We can all use fresh ideas for engaging students with course content. What can the games we play teach us about designing our courses? Games have kept people engaged for decades because they have systematically designed engagement practices. In this program we will explore how to recognize these engagement practices and apply them into course design. Learn how to use the games that surround us to make our courses more powerful.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn several design-based first-year supports, how to create opportunities in the facilitation of your courses to create and build classroom skills, and how to plan/implement evaluations to continue to support students in their educational journey. Designing with students in mind first helps you be purposeful in your approach to building their skills and meeting their needs.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Do you have a system or standard process for prepping a course you've taught before? Where do you start? Often, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. What most of us need is a strategic, instructionally sound set of steps to help guide our decision-making. This 20-Minute Mentor provides just that, a four-step model considering the big picture goals, major content areas, calendar implications, and assessments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- How Can Preparing to Teach Online Improve My Face-to-face Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, learn how the process of teaching online can improve your face-to-face teaching.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
- What Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques Can I Use to Improve Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, faculty become more aware of cultural differences as well as the intersectionality of all different cultures represented in the classroom to engage with students on a deeper level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program explains what you need to do to gamify more courses and ensure students persist even through failure. You'll be exposed to several effective gamification strategies and examples of each. You'll also explore how these strategies can foster student persistence and engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- When gamifying your courses, it's vital that you measure the effectiveness of gamification and identify which aspects keep students most engaged. At times, you might have to make small changes. At other times, you might have to stop gamifying and reevaluate. This program will help you find the right fit for your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access
- Copyright Crash Course: How Can I Stay on the Right Side of the Law?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program not only teaches the core concepts of copyright law, but its also useful in a train-the-trainer sense—it is designed to give you the ideas and tools you need to be able to be a copyright ninja in an academic environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Bring Pop to My Classroom with Pop Culture?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Create a positive and unique classroom environment in which students are more connected to your content through these concrete strategies for applying pop culture to your course.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Leverage Force Multipliers in the Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This presentation will show you how to enhance your productivity and improve your efficiency by accessing a host of what could easily be described as virtual teaching assistants. You'll learn how to get help with all the things that matter to you: grading, teaching, interacting with students, conducting research, and kindling students interest in learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Do I Align Learning Objectives with Technology Using Backward Design?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to peel back the layers of your teaching challenges and work backwards from your learning objectives to your choice of technology solutions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Align Technology with My Pedagogical Goals?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to conduct a self-assessment to identify your strengths and where you need to work on using technology to accomplish pedagogical goals. Discover teaching methods in which technology can help students experience content in a variety of ways.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program identifies both general and discipline-specific critical thinking skills and how to turn these skills into good student learning outcomes. Learn to define critical thinking when designing or redesigning courses and identify the type of content conducive to practicing critical thinking.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Are 5 FAQ’s About Faculty Roles in the Flipped Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program will give you the confidence you need to start flipping your own courses right away. Discover the answers to the five most common areas of concern for instructors new to flipping.
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